HIV Sathi

HIV SATHI app presents a user friendly platform to increase compliance to anti–HIV medications and promote awareness about HIV and AIDS.

HIV infection is no longer a death sentence but a chronic manageable disease like hypertension or diabetes. The availability of generic anti-HIV medicines, also known as antiretroviral therapy or ART has changed the overall outcome of the disease.

Adherence refers to regular consumption of prescribed ART medication at correct time. Suboptimal adherence leads to development of antiretroviral resistance and worsening of health, ultimately leading to death. This free to use mobile app is an innovative initiative to promote optimal adherence. This friendly app reminds the user for timely consumption of medicines by triggering an alarm at designated time.

The other important features that make it a complete self care app are:

1. It creates reminder for the next clinic visit

2. It empower people with the knowledge to fight the HIV epidemic

3. It enable user to track results of the routine laboratory investigations

4. It simplify adherence calculation rate for user and physicians

5. It provides BMI calculator and creatinine clearance calculator

6. You can mail your queries for an expert opinion.

How to use the app features:

Profile: Set your profile by clicking on the profile icon at the right lower corner and feed personal info such as Gender/Age/Weight/ART start date etc.

Add your medications: Add your ART medications and set alarm as per your convenient time. The medication reminder alarm will buzz at the time that you have set.  The user needs to take his/her pill and press the take button whenever reminder alarm rings. The application will acknowledge timely consumption of medication on doing so.

Adherence percentage: You can check your compliance rate to ART medications in the adherence percentage section of the home screen.

Calculator: The calculator function is useful for knowing Body mass Index (BMI) and Creatinine clearance rate. Please note that the abnormal lab values will be highlighted.

Lab Reports: You can add your routine Lab investigations in the “Reports” section. You can visualize your CD4 trend in a graphical format also.

Health Education: HIV awareness tool consist of up to date information on various aspect of HIV prevention.

The details information regarding installation support and troubleshooting is also available at: http://www.nathits.com/hivsathi.html

Other HIV related queries or feedback may be mailed to [email protected]